Tessellation is a repeating pattern of the same shapes without any gaps or overlaps. These patterns are found in nature, used by artists and architects and studied for their mathematical properties.

M.C. ESCHER: Art and Science. H.S.M. Coxeter, M. Emmer, R. Penrose and M.L Teuber, eds. Elsevier, New York, 1986. 402 pp. $50. Who has failed to notice that exposition in the mathematical sciences is ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater.

Photos decorate a tool and print cabinet used by artist M.C. Escher, part of an exhibit of the artist’s work, Thursday, March 10, 2022, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

''He didn’t want to be a painter because then you could only make one painting,'' says Mark Veldhuysen, curator of the M.C. Escher Foundation, established in 1968 to preserve the artist’s legacy.

A tessellation is an arrangement of polygons in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlap. You might have seen art that is inspired by tessellations, like pieces created by M.C. Escher. The type of ...

Dutch artist M.C. Escher's most famous drawing, 'Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell)', shows angels and demons in a tessellation that fills a circle without empty spaces. This masterful woodcut ...

Maurits Cornelis Escher – better known as MC Escher – was a graphic artist, born in Holland in 1898. In his lifetime, his work in woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, inspired by tessellation and ...

A simple room refinishing project lead [Kris] to his biggest hack yet, a floor inspired by MC Escher’s Reptiles print. Maurits Cornelis Escher is well known for his reality defying artwork. H… ...